The Irish standard., 1887-04-09
FROM AFFAIR.

F1rBEN years ago there were no native
oysters in France. At the present time
he yield amounts to five hundred thou
,and.
| Thu Norwegian wood pulp industry is
argely on the increase The product of
The last year is nearly ninety-fve tons in
excess Of that of SIX years ago.
The ancestral home Of the family of Con-
.ucius, in China, was recently destroyed by
Ire. It is said to have been occupied by
generation after generation for twenty-five
! hundred years.
| ALL military centers in both France and
Germany are being connected by an under
ground telegraph cable system. The ca
oles are four feet below the surface and
ire safe from injury by storms.
WHEN the Car Of Russia prepares for a
lrive the police are notified all along the
inc to be Travelled. Hundreds of men en-
oloyed at good pay attend him with vigi-
Ience. It 10 said the police insist on these
precautions rather against the wishes of
The Gear.
THERE are three thousand five hundred
police in Berlin. These do not perform
service at night so there are five hundred
aight watchmen especially employed. All
The policemen are those who have served
IN the army and have conducted themselves
sealously and faithfully.
THERE is a perfect labrynth of under
ground streets in Eperany, France, in
which are stored millions of bottles of
champagne. In fact this is city of cham
payne. The largest manufacturers have
whole streets of chateaux and cellars
forty-fve acres in extent.
The Berlin Royal Library, through the
representations of the German Crown
Prince, purchased the library of the re-
Gently deceased historian, Leopold Won
Ranhe. The collection contained upward
IF twenty thousand volumes valued at
twenty thousand pounds.
TIE religion of Turkish women in Con.
,tantinople forbids the attendance Of male
physicians, hence their condition is ex-
tremely sad. The same state of things
exists among the Mohammedans in India.
Both Turkey and India offer female ply
sicians ample fields for usefulness.
PARIS has recently provided shelter for
ner outcasts by opening refugees at which
The poor are provided with food and cloth
ng donated by the charitably chned peo-
pie Of means Sixty thousand homeless
:restures have been relieved at cost of
hree hundred aud fifty thousand dollars.
FDoM the palace Of the Khedive to the
lumblest home of any Husselman in
Egypt one will not find statue nor picture
adorning the walls, excepting ancient
specimens and the statute of Mehenset Ali.
The Noham medans say that at the last
lay Allah will require them to put soul
into every painted or carved representa-
ioa of his work.
A DESCRIPTION Of the Abyssmlan General
Ras Alula is thus given in the London
Times: HE is thirty-t years of age, tall,
wellmade and has proud and resolute
air. His dark skin reveals his slave origin,
yet he is much feared by the people. In
days Of peace he resides in tent on the
mountain Of Asmara His immediate fol-
lowers number few thousands, but in
case of war he can call upon fifteen thou
sand men,"
DIVORCE courts are dispensed with in
India If wife wishes to be free from
her husband she can obtain that freedom by
outrunning him; should she fail in this she is
cut down with kookree in the hands of her
worthy spouse. Should the husband wish
dissolution Of the marriage bond he SIM
ply carries out his own desire by ousting
his better half, very simple and inexpen-
sive process, but hard on the wife in either